On 2/1/06, Luke Lonergan <llonergan@greenplum.com> wrote:
[snip]
> This is actually interesting overall - I think what this might be showing is
> that the Linux SW RAID1 is alternating I/Os to the mirror disks from
> different processes (LWP or HWP both maybe?), but not within one process.
I can confirm this behavior after looking at my multipathed fibre
channel SAN. To the best of my knowledge, the multipathing code uses
the same underlying I/O code as the Linux SW RAID logic.
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